The Pseudoman continues to raze the foundations laid down by our ancestors. His greed and self-contempt are corrupting the true essence of humanity. War, pain, loss and futile quarrels have become our absolute fate. Will we ever wake up? Or will we all volunteer to be a casualty of this self-constructed catastrophe?

A man fighting for his life on a world whose inhabitants are preyed upon by lethal machines. He can run, hide or pray, there is no fighting them. A woman just doing her job. Juggling morality and indifference she watches over the machines.

Young Joshua stands alone under a cold night rain, trapped outside of the only human settlement on the planet. A rising screech rolls out from the forbidding shadows shifting under huge alien trees. Time to survive.

Can Biotechnology Abolish Suffering? is a collection of essays by utilitarian philosopher David Pearce. The essays deal with the abolition of suffering through biotechnology, negative utilitarianism, our obligations toward non-human animals, the nature of consciousness, and the future of intelligent life.

This is an unorthodox article about the morality and the democracy explaining some basic, yet misunderstood, points about the democracy, in what way it is good and in what bad, why it has no morality, and how we can better it a little. This essay is of a bit later time, so that it contains in brief form other, more profound, ideas expressed earlier. There is also a funny poetical Appendix to it.